You cannot sustain alarmism toward a looming catastrophe, when the solution, Nuclear Energy, is plain to anyone not already benighted by a misanthropic animus. Normal people see thru it and pull away. Science that does not permit doubt is no different to religion.
Not surprisingly, the climate activist movement attracts battalions of self-haters. You need to be enraged to welcome the approach of human misery. Normal people avert their gaze, mumble the prescribed platitudes, and roll their eyes.
The war-on-terror and the cold-war preceding it were at least gripping. It is probably impossible to captivate people with spreadsheets and pivot charts detailing the incremental melting of ice sheets.
Sadly, we always need an infernal enemy to fear and hate. We like it to be an existential thing, an ever-looming doomsday. It does not need to be real. Witches and devils will suffice. No shred of logic required. The rise and fall of dramatic moments, villains, twists, and scandals are what’s important. With the occasional lull to provide space for the next hysterical moment.. Sadly, Climate Change is all lull and no action.
Bored with Nuclear Annihilation
We searched tirelessly for something to replace the cold war. Once the USSR collapsed, the imminent threat of thermonuclear annihilation lost its potency.
An Epidemic of Mental health disorders
In the immediate aftermath of the cold war, the Clinton administration began a crusade against crime, illicit drugs, and even cigarettes. They merely succeeded in filling the prisons. And sparked an epidemic of mental health disorders, depression, and anxiety.
The Bush administration discovered a magical method to awaken us from our collective stupor.
Welcome to the War on Terror
It came in the form of self-combusting high-rise towers collapsing into their own footprint, releasing giant mushroom clouds across Manhattan. In ninety gripping minutes, the length of a feature film is all it took. From when the first tower was hit to when both towers were gone. Our mouths agape. We speculated: how, who, what, why? Not for long. Footage of Osama Bin Lidan’s elite cross-training camp gave us the answer we needed. The villain was hiding in a remote wilderness with a legion of shisha-smokers. This was an enemy we could understand.
The prepared Patriot Act was unleashed with Gitmo, Mass Surveillance, Rendition and Torture. The western world would voluntarily tear up its civic freedoms and democratic pretensions to prove that we were properly serious.
CNN screened live footage of our brave military bombing Bin-Laden’s fundamentalist cross-training camp out of existence. His operation scurried into a labyrinth of caves at the edge of the world. The chase was on. And on we went, dismantling the medieval fundamentalist Taliban regime to gloriously return freedom to the Afghanistan people. Enabling the local women to burn their hijabs, and the bedeviled poppy-seed farmers to reclaim their traditional status as the world’s leading heroin exporters.
Admittedly, from this point on, the script meandered. There was no logical connection between 9/11 and Sadam to justify the ensuing invasion. The ISIS gang of drug-fueled marauding head-choppers made even less sense. Nevertheless, the opening scenes of the war on terror were sufficiently brilliant to hold our attention thru two Bush and two Obama administrations. By comparison, Climate Change and its dumber off-shoot, the COVID-Pandemic, were and remain dull glacial affairs that cannot deliver on their apocalyptic promise.
“Yes, mien Fuhrer“
Sadly, no one in the current Whitehouse has the menacing aura of the VP, Sith Lord Cheney. President Biden is not only frail but incoherent. And that weird dude leading the WEF climate change agenda, Klaus Schwab. The one that speaks with a thick German accent and has a habit of sprouting a masochistic vision for humanity. The one that promises we will all be happy, own nothing and eat bugs. When you watch him, you think, “yes, mien Fuhrer.” Then, you think, he is missing black leathers, knee-high-boots, and a riding crop.
The climate change agenda is akin to the list of deceased parrot synonyms in that Python sketch. The longer it persists, the more we are all unmoored from reality. Last week, the BBC published an article labelling Climate Change Denier’s racists. We can expect evidence-free claims that Climate Change Denial is responsible for all of obesity, vaping, Hamas attacks, Ukraine war, covid, and vaccine hesitancy.
Lost our minds
This hobbyhorse is well beaten. It continues because, who knows, our ruling elites remain addicted to siphoning returns from the forced transition to renewable energy. Just as they are addicted to the money laundering proxy-war operation in Ukraine. We all know perfectly well that these policies are causing an unsustainable rise in the cost of energy and the cost of living. Just as we all know that the pointless Trump hysteria will once again dominate news for the next twelve months.
We are all out of ideas. Manufacturing hysteria over intangibles from white-privilege, racism, and gender dysphoria.
Can we stop conjuring dragons, devils, and witches? There are genuine enough threats that require our collective intelligence. The exaggeration, catastrophizing and conjuring of phantoms, even when they are wearing scary medieval bison hats is tiresome.
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Read more: After the climate apocalypsePrepare for the emergence of tyrannical large-language word-processors to launch an alien invasion.
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“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR’s First Inaugural Address (gmu.edu)https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/
